While some albums are sure to be a surprise (Frank Ocean, we’re looking at you), there are some real release dates to mark on your calendar this year. And while New Music Friday may only be one day a week, the amount of insanely good albums being released should be more than enough to cover the months ahead. Like every year, 2018 will be a great one for music. Here’s 37 albums worth waiting for.

Leave it to Arctic Monkeys to tease their next album in an interview with a motorcycle magazine. Bassist Nick O’Malley recently told For the Ride that the band started work this past September on their follow-up to 2013’s slicked-back, moodily muscled-up AM. If the new record doesn’t arrive in 2018, O’Malley said, “We’ve got problems.” Frontman Alex Turner hasn’t stayed quiet in the meantime, reviving his Last Shadow Puppets side project for 2016’s Everything You’ve Come to Expect.

If Courtney Barnett is a slacker, it’s in style only. The shrewdly ramshackle Australian singer/songwriter released a double EP in 2013, a lengthily titled debut album in 2015, and Lotta Sea Lice, her collaborative album with Philly kindred spirit Kurt Vile, this past October. She recently revealed that she recorded some new music in fall 2016 with an eye on her sophomore solo record. “But then I don’t know, I just did a lot of second-guessing myself and freaked myself out, I think,” she explained. Unaffected nonchalance is painstaking work.

“The biggest couple in music, maybe entertainment, maybe the world….They’re working on an album together,” said radio host DJ Skee in September 2014, spreading a rumor that JAY-Z and Beyoncé were making a collaborative album. Now, Jay has confirmed that, in the runup to their respective solo albums Lemonade and 4:44, he and Bey were indeed in the studio for a joint LP. “We still have a lot of that music,” he said. If the world gets to hear it, well, that will be big.

Björk has long released live albums to pair with her studio albums, going back to 1993’s Debut. Her flute-adorned 2017 record on new love after heartbreak, Utopia, will be no different: She recently announced that a live version of Utopia will be out this spring.

Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes has been working on a new album—a follow-up to Blood Orange’s devastating 2016 album, Freetown Sound—which he said in October is “78 percent done.” By the end of 2017, he was obliquely teasing new music on Instagram.

Danny Brown’s cutting wordplay, dynamic voice, and open-eared production choices have carried him across a tremendous run of albums, most recently 2016’s Atrocity Exhibition. Lately, the Detroit rapper has been back in the studio. “I’m working on my next album right now,” he disclosed this past fall. “I would just say it’s being produced by one producer who’s legendary in hip-hop. And it’s gonna be a big deal.”

Donald Glover recently let slip that he’s been working on new music, which he releases under his Childish Gambino moniker. “London has been very inspirational,” said Glover, who has been living in the UK for the past year. He has been a bit busy since the rap-to-funk left turn of 2016’s “Awaken, My Love!”—whether playing Lando Calrissian in an upcoming Star Wars film or doing the award-show circuit for his acclaimed TV series “Atlanta.” Too soon to talk EGOT? Maybe, but short of that, Glover has also been teasing a possible collaborative mixtape with Chance the Rapper.

Drake’s very long, often very good “playlist” More Life is less than 10 months old, but he’s already been talking up new music. In August, at his hometown OVO Fest, Drake announced he was crafting a follow-up, telling the crowd, “I’m about to go back to making this new album in Toronto, just for you.” In November, while on tour in New Zealand, he reiterated that promise of “new shit” and previewed a downtempo, unreleased song.

On “Leaving LA,” from last spring’s Pure Comedy, Father John Misty sings, “Another white guy in 2017 who takes himself far too seriously.” Mark him down for 2018, too. The indie troubadour born Joshua Tillman told Uncut that his next record, which he has said will arrive in the coming year, is “a heartache album.” He compared the effort to his second FJM full-length, 2015’s I Love You, Honeybear, albeit “without the cynicism.”

“Here’s one of the several reasons why I can’t wait to put something out: certain people will be forced to come up with their own identity & artistic vision,” Sky Ferreira tweeted cryptically in November. The follow-up to her 2013 debut album, Night Time, My Time, has been long delayed, though her profile has only increased due to film and TV roles (including Baby Driver and “Twin Peaks: The Return”). In other recent tweets, Ferreira opened up about medical concerns behind the postponement and teased that new music will be on the way “very soon.”

Way back in February 2016, FKA twigs shared a slow-burn single, “Good to Love.” But this new music—her first since 2015’s surprise-released EP M3LL155X—didn’t presage a follow-up to the avant-pop artist’s watershed 2014 debut album, LP1. In recent months, however, she has previewed a new collaboration with Oneohtrix Point Never, “Trust in Me,” as part of an “Instagram zine.” An album appears imminent.

Last April, Frankie Cosmos signed to Sub Pop. The move followed the Greta Kline–led indie-pop project’s exquisite 2016 album, Next Thing, and an endearing covers cassette dispatched later that same year. Kline has since tested what she can do with a darker new trio, Lexie, and in a duet with the Brooklyn band Cende. But despite her knack for particularly succinct songs, a new full-length will surely be welcome.

Nipsey Hussle’s long-delayed debut album is finally on the way. In announcing the release date recently, the Los Angeles rapper (and incendiary guest on YG’s “FDT”) shared a video for his gritty, bombastic “Rap N----s.” A tracklist hasn’t been released yet, but the JAY-Z-cosigned mixtape MC is releasing the LP via his All Money In imprint and Atlantic Records.

The originally anonymous British production duo behind Jungle expanded into a seven-piece collective for their 2014 self-titled debut of genre-melting falsetto-funk. Their forthcoming follow-up album on XL, still untitled and with a release date to be determined, is said to be more pensive, downcast, and with a heavy influence from Southern California and recent breakups. Those falsettos remain, but now they’re joined by Morricone-esque strings. A likely lead single: the cinematic, slow-burning “House in L.A.”

Twice, on her 2015 breakout hit “How Does It Feel” and two years later on her one-off single “Successful,” Kamaiyah has asked, “How does it feel to be rich?” The ’90s R&B–nodding, refreshingly grounded Oakland rapper has done well in the meantime, notching a hit with YG and Drake, representing as the only woman on the cover of XXL’s annual Freshman Class issue, and dropping a pair ofbuoyant mixtapes. Her Interscope debut album has been held up in sample-clearance limbo for months, but when it arrives, 2018 might be the year everyone else can cheer Kamaiyah’s question right back at her.

This past fall, Lady Gaga was forced to reschedule European tour dates around her pared-back 2016 album, Joanne, because of “severe physical pain.” So while wishing her a full and speedy recovery, there’s no way of knowing how that might have affected her plans for a follow-up. As recently as August, Gaga said she was writing her next album. At 2017’s Coachella, where she replaced Beyoncé as a headliner, she debuted and then immediately released a new song, “The Cure,” her post-Joanne return to shiny dance-pop. At the end of 2018, her Las Vegas residency awaits.

In 2013, the Ethiopian jazz musician Hailu Mergia’s 1985 album Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument: Shemonmuanaye was reissued thanks to the Awesome Tapes From Africa label. Soon, the cab-driving keyboardist will be back with his first studio album in 15 years, Lala Belu. The first single, “Gum Gum,” is limber live-band organ jazz, and a happy return.

Altanta’s reigning rap trio will reportedly release their sequel to last year’s blockbuster Culture this month. Then again, Migos member Offset previously indicated the album would arrive last October. Little is certain about the next record from him and his partners Quavo and Takeoff, but “MotorSport,” an October collaboration with Nicki Minaj and Cardi B, is expected to be on it. All ears will be listening for another “Bad and Boujee” or “T-Shirt”-level earworm.

Nicki Minaj has been teasing the follow-up to 2014’s The Pinkprint for more than a year. One day last March, she released three new songs, including one with Lil Wayne and another with both Wayne and Drake. In September, though, she was vague about her progress, except to say her fourth LP would be “epic.” In October, she expounded, “This album is everything in my life coming full circle….Now I can tell you guys what happened for the last two years of my life.”